To commemorate Hello Kitty’s 30th anniversary, developer Business Design Laboratory has produced a Kitty-chan robot.
This latest addition to the Hello Kitty family will be available from November 1st, a date designed to coincide with the feline character’s birthday.
The toy is unfortunately unable to walk, but is expected to make up for this with its supposed ‘communication’ abilities. With an impressive stock of 20,000 memorized conversation patterns to choose from, you can expect the robotic cat to blurt out random words and phrases at the most inappropriate times imaginable. And to aid this communication ability further, the device is able to gesture by moving its head and arms.
For anyone hoping to get their hands on one of these technological tabbies, be prepared to do a bit of saving before its release. The retail price is expected to be somewhere around the 400,000 yen (2,000 pounds) mark.
Rumours that the machine whispers, “Buy more Kitty merchandise” and, “Kitty is your new god” whilst the owner is asleep, have been strenuously denied by the manufacturers.
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Just £2000? For a cat who can sit still and talk to me at great length- in Japanese? A snip!
I will take 2, so they can talk to each other while I am acquiring the necessary language skills to join in. They will probably fit in that house I bought of you the other day.
She’s not supposed to talk, she has no mouth! Cute robot though
I understand it knows who shot Kennedy. The winning lotto #’s. Tomorrow’s horror-scope. The stock market results.
This thing is a refugee from the X-files and is worth it’s weight in good fortune. Better get one before February 12 2006 because we all know what happens then.